By Ramarko Sengupta
Publication Date: 2026-05-13 05:12:00
Google is moving the needle on artificial intelligence, quite literally. And in classic Google fashion, it is doing so by reimagining something most people stopped thinking about decades ago: the humble computer cursor.
In a blog post published last night, Google DeepMind unveiled experimental demos of what it calls an “AI-enabled pointer,” a cursor powered by Gemini that does not just track where users are pointing, but also understands what they are pointing at and why it matters.
It feels quite Tony Stark-ish. Remember how the Iron Man movies showed Tony Stark using ambient and intuitive AI all those years ago? His fictional AI assistants, principally J.A.R.V.I.S. and later F.R.I.D.A.Y., operated as always-on, contextual, and conversational partners rather than just command-based tools.
All this is not some distant sci-fi dream anymore. Imagine hovering over…
